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ticipated danger. r` It was also- natural that the British nation, so hitely soured by the d4appointinentof its hopes in the 'Convention of Cintra, and now encoura#d to fresh expectations by ..the well-known gallantry of Sir John Moore, should view with impatience the long sceee,olapparent inactivity exbibited at . Sala manca, and compariug the. velocity of Buonaparte's eagles with the sluggish movements of out Commis saries and their baggage waggons, should shut their ears against any reasons by which a retreat without a battle could be justified. " On the other nand it was perhaps equally natu ral that our Generals should be actuated by very different feelings. Sir vivid Baird had arrived on the 13th of October at, Colunoa ; but, in the first instance, by.ionie strange perversity or negligence of the Central Junta, he was not permittedau land his troops. The cavalry and artillery ln:ying--joitted him later, could, 1)(t be tiiien barked and put jet mo tion till the ibtlrof November, when having re ceivedan account of Blake's &fear at Sbronosa, he began to feel the difficulty of etfetaing his preposed iuriaion wAit Sir J. Nl:Jere. We are told- by Mr. Moore,. (whether seri ou-ly ur burnout - oust y, we are, atter much grave deliberation, unable to decide,) that Sir David Baird had also a pet nliar source ot antioy ance in the want of " slaves" an elel2hants" to N itich lie had been acci.!.otned in India but, now ever this might be, 1w was ceitainiy assailed hy nu merous difficulties during his match; halkissed by alartnitig and contradictory n-ports, disconcerted by the slowness and apathy - of those whoa: he had ex pected..to find enthusiasts, and' confounded by the rapidity of the French successes. He seems to base despaired almost - at the beginning, and to,have com municated his despondency to :Sir John Moore ; who, in a situation" of moth greater hazard, with more extensive responsibility, having full leisure to meditate on the accumulation of power •which was destined to overwhelm him, ultimately reconciled his mind to every sacrifice by which the impending destruaion might be averted. Gallant and Wave as he was, and adventurous in meeting, and even in courting personal danger, and confident as he must have been in 'the spirit of his excellent troops, he seems to have forgotten that theii courage might perhaps afford him some resource, and that audacity in forming, and rapidity in . executing projects, is often, in the' vicissitudes ot- military life, the best quality of a Genera/. The thelaticholy forebodings by which he was now.visited,are strongly expressed in the concluding lines of his letter ab' Sir David Baird. On your arrival 'at Corunua, j d will of course embark and sail for the TagnS, )iliete orders shall be waiting for you. Write immediately to England,- and give notice of what we are doing; and bog that transports maybe sent to Lisbon. They will be wanted ; for when the French have Spain, Portugal cannot be deltnded " The intelligence of Sir John Moore's intention having been conveyed to Ananjuez and. Madrid, by his letters of the tnth, excited there the tamest con sternation. Mr. Stuart writes to him on the follow ing day, "You must certainly .snow best the chances of eireaing a_junCtion between y.'ur different divi sions and it does not become me to hazard an opi nion on the subiett. 'With respect, however, to tke consequence of their distinct retrograde move taislts, I can tell Yoii, that they are likely to pro duce an tiled here, not less serious than the most decisive viaory on the part of the enemy ; and I shall, .1 own, be surprised if a change of Govern ment is not the immediate consequence, when the reasons tor your retreat are . known." Mr. Frere dispatched on the same day two letters of expos!u lation on the same subjed. The Central Govern ment sent to Salamanca two Spanish Generals, whom Sir John Moore professed to consider as' two old women,' and whose remonstrances, of course, bad not any el - Tea in shaking his resolution. La tly, CaSiei Franco and Morla, the joint Governors of Ma drid, addressed to him, on theiertreDecernber, a memorial, imploring him to succour that city, which it had been resolved to defend to the last extremity; and Colonel Charinilly, who had witnessed the ap ' patently enthusiastic uetermination of the inhabit was,deputed by Mr. I:rere to report what he had seen, and to second the urgent representations contained in a letter of which he was the bearer. These dispatches reached Salamanca on the 5th, the very day on which it appears that the artillery under General Ilotou joined the army; and, it) conse- LONDON: ,Printed by RICHARD HARRIS, of No. 4, Marticit-co.nt, Bow-street; an' At t SoN-Ovricis, No. 112, Strand; where Advertisements, Orders BRITISH RLI7E In pursuance of our avowed intention-to-W:4 _lla, tiLe ativ To.itical of litre any, whic,hinay , deserve public attention, we deem it proivc,io yert again to Tug Q.UARTMILY REVaOillica tion that is entitled to .general apprt..bation and sup por, for its laedanle tendency, as well as its intrinsic merit. We know there is a fund of good sense and loAty in the people or this • country, and therefore we can have little doubt that a work c:hiefly intend ed to counteract the pernicioOs ictiuence of a publi cation of the sam.• oature, characterized as much by democratic subtlety, as by extr,rne arrogance and self conceit, though ceitainly not devoid Of infOrniation ,Ind we have little doubt, we say, that the good sense and loyalty of die people:Vvilt -induce them to Ntronize a work calculated to check • the ()Fero lion of the publication alluded to ; and' Hence - we predict a warm proteetion of TIIE CIU A liT4 - 11.1.Y RE- lEW. We now resume .our. Extra C t .. from it - 451:•ent6tians on the " Narative of the CLinipaign of the British Army in Spain, commanded. by Sr'i JOINT MOORS, K. B. &c. authenticated by official. - Papers and origi nal Letters by JAMgS MOORE, )::sq." It was natural that our Minister at Aranjuez, posed as he was to the daily solicitations of the Span ish Government, witnessing the difficulties by which they are assailed on all sides, conscious of the anxie ty of his own Court that an auxiliary army; which hid been fitted out_and carried into Spain, after much effort, and at an enormous expense, should become available in the hour Of Spanish distress ; and aware of the impression which its success or. tailore might produce on the Cabinets of all Europe, should consider its proposed retreat from the only scene ofatition on which British valour LA an op- portunity of exerting itself, as too hurtful and igno minious to be palliated by any apprehensions of an- quence of measures concerted between the two Ge nerals at Alba de 'formes, where they met on the -ttivaetually began their tetreat towards Portugal." NEW SOUTH WALES. FROM THE SYDNEY GAZETTE, MAY 29. On Thursday arrived his Majesty's ship Porpoise, from Port Dalrymple. Passenger, Lieut. Mason, of die i~Lvv South \Vales Corps. Se' k..-ral prisoners are received by the Porpoise, for trial, from Port Dalrymple; one of whom, John Brown, stands charged with the wilful murder of John Curry, Robert G; indleston, and James Daniels, who were privates in the detachment at Port Dal ryinple ; and also with the murder of Richard Scantling, a prisoner; besides several daring rob beries. ,- From the melancholy narrative it appears, that two men, who had absconded from Port Dalrymple, and taken to the woods, had, on a day previous to November last, gone into alint at the head of tln; harbiur, at which a small party of the detachment was stationed ; one soldier being in the hut, with a prisoner (since dead), whose name was Morey ; drat the report of a musket had been heard from the hut shortly before the strangers entered, each armed with a musket ; that they presented their firelocks, and ordered one of the unarmed men to land the other, which, being enforced b.y menaces, he was himself afterwards secured ; that thr.y then con cluded them to a small distance from the !rouse, and skewing them the dead body of J. Curry, declared themselves the perpretators of his murder; and then, slightly covering the remains, returned with them to the hut, where they for several hours await ed the arrival of another soldier, whom they also Surprized'.and bound; that they then tied up in bundles such wearing apparel and other articleS as they chose to take away, with which they loaded the captives of their lawless force ; and after setting fire to the hut, marched them into the woods, with their hands still bound ; and that, after a painful travel for more than 20 miles, the unparalleled ails creams deliberately bred at the two soldiers, : and then continued their route, until one of the . ruffians enressing a doubt of their being dead, they return ed to the scene of wanton cruelty, where, perceiv ing that one of the ill-toted viraims had not yet ex pired, they cut his throat. JUNE 5, 1808.—On Monday a Court of Criminal Jurisdiction assembled, when John Brown was put to the bar, arraigned on various charges of murder, committed by him, assisted' . by Robert Leman, in the neighbourhood of the settlement of Port Dal rymple. Upon the investigation of the facts charg ed in the indidment, it appeared that the- prisoner, who ha I been twenty months absen trom the settlement, and had resorted to the woods, with his daring accomplice, was present at, and accessary to, the murdei of John Curry, Robert Grmdleston, and Jant , s Daniels; that in November last, eight pri soners, who had absconded from Hobart Town, joined company with them at Oyster Bay ; at which tune John Morey, the prisoner, whom they had taken from the but at the head of Port Dalrymple, with the two soldiers whom they afterwards caielly murdered, was then with them ; that Morey had ixivatel) . informed several of the other party of the horrible excesses; in consequence ot which, the two miscreants were themselves surprised and.bvnnd, in which situation they were left, and their guns and aiuuo taken from them ; that Morey joined the party of eight, who afterwards seized upon their ; and were here capitally convicted for the ()deuce ; that, after adding numerous robberies to their wanton murders, a settler, who had been sur , prised by them in the woods, and detained as a guide, but who had at length extricated himself by a promise of returning with such necessaries as they 'wanted, in exchange for the fat of emues, attended in seeming compliance with his appointment, with two other persons in company : and embracing a favourable opportunity, attacked them with intent to make them piisoners ; but Leman's resistance preventing the possibility of taking him alive, be was shot dead, and Brown was then overpowered and secured. Leman's head being afterwards sev e red from his body, Brown was compelled to be the bearer of it into Hobart Town ; from whence he was shortly after sent, under an escort, to Yorktou, where he waskept, until sent to his settlement, in the Porpoise for trial. During his confinement at York ton, he had, in the moments of compunaion, recited various acts of enormity committed by himself and Leman ; he had repeatedly acknowledged himself privy to the crimes for which he was shortly to atone ; as well as many alas of barbarity against the straggling natives, one of whom lie said hall beets killed Lay them. After a long and thorough investigation, the pri soner was found Guilty and sentenced to be bang ed ; his body to be dissected, and afterwards hung in chains. On Tuesday he was taken to the place of execution. He repeatedly requested the specta tors to beseech the Divine Mercy in.his behalt, but did riot deny the justice of his sentence, the latter part of which was carried into execution .on, Wed nesday, by the body being hung in chains on a small island near the Cove BLAcs. BEETLES.—The following is not only a certain method of destroying Black Beetles, but one that is neither attended with much trouble or ex pence :—Stiew the kitchen and other places fre quented by them with common red wafers; which flit. , eat with great. avidity, and which, from the lead;hey contain, will, in a short time, destroy them all. This must be done eve!) , night, just before the retires to• bed, and repeated till no more beetle, remain. A quarter of a pound of wafers is, in general, sufficient Lo complete their destruction. Core sh9uld be take to remove every article of food out of their way. Three small orchards were lately sold at Chelten ham—one, containing little more that an acre, and divided into two lots, went for 18631. 105.; an other, about au acre and a half, for 11561. 10s. ; and the third, about two acres, iiBB.—Total for four and a halt acres 42081.—This vety gfound was sold but a few years ago, at what was thought a high price, about 901.i,er acre. Measures have been lately adopted .in the North of S)siencn for printing 5000 copies of the New Tes tament in the Lapland language, OTAHLITL. ESITRA.CT OF & LETTER, DATED SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, JULY 17, - 1808. Arrived the Mercury colonial schooner, Thomas Reiby, master, from Otaheite, with a cargo of pork, the whole in high preservation. She sailed from thence the totli of amember last, in company . with the King George ; went together to the Bay of Islands, for refreshments and separated the 3d of January, in latitude 33. 20. ; the King George bound for the Fejees ; on the 24th of It'ebeuary she came to anchor in the Bay of M itavia ; and, having completed her cargo among the islands, in two months, on the 25th of April took her dermrturL: . from Ulitea ; on her return to Port Jacks,,n, made Norfolk Island the Ist of June, and left the 6,h. She found the American ship Amethyst, Captain Smith, at the Islands ; from whom she fortunately received a supply of salt, that which she bad taken from hence having sunk a full third part from its original quantity; which, but for the circumstance of her obtaining an accidental supply, must have been produaive of serious disappointment to the owners. We are sorry to learn that Captain Smith had lost several of his people among the Islands, who deserted his ship from an inclination of living among the natives ; to whose friendly disposition toward the English -Mr. Reins,' was particularly indebted for the accomplishment of his object in so short a period. • Mr. R. did not at first see King Pormirree, for whom he took from hence a gold time-keeper, sent hither to be repaired; and which he was of ne cessity, obliged to deliver to his mother. The Mercury was hove down-at Ulitea 5 and upon this occasion, was moored, as the chiefs affirmed, to the very tree, which had, upon the like occasion, been made choice of by Captain Cook, for heaving down the Resolution; and to bring to recolleEtion the more strongly that great circumnavigator's visit to these bleeds, a chief, named Malice, pro duced a medallion of his Majesty, whicti his father had received as a present from Captain Cook ; which, after some solicitation, he at length gave to Mr. Rciby ; the reversed side, represeutin i two ships, encircled by the words—Resolution and Adventure MDCCLXXII. This medal is considerably larger than a crown piece, and was originally gilt ; but which, from the length of time, being 36 years, is now nearly worn off. By the order of Labbor, the head chief at Ulitea, a stoic house, 100 feet ie length, and 50 in breadth, was built for the reception of the Mer cury's stores, the building of which was complet ed in a day and a half; so numerous were the workmen. Upon leaving the island, the vessel stood towards Manjeea, an island to the south-west of Ultra, the people of which seem perfeCt strangers to every race of people but their own. In their dress and colour they differ little from UR:Friendly Islanders, but owing, perhaps, to the total want of intercourse, with civtlized visitors, their manners are ferocious, as their aspe6ts are forbidding. These people are said to be much above the ordinary size, robust, and very muscular. On the Mercury's approach, 50 or 60 canoes went out to meet her, each canoe having only one man in it, armed with a long spear anti several short ones. As soon ai they came to, which was about two miles from the snore, they went along-side, and entreated the hands to get nearer, which, together with their repeated ciforts to decoy them into their canoes, produced a suspi cion of their views, and, in consequence, the schooner's people's got ready to defend themselves in case of an attack. Their numbers prodigiously increasing, every pre;:: caution was used to prevent any from getting on board; they appeared to have no kind of know ledge of fire arms, which they saw without emo tion. They demanded every moveable they saw on deck, and were understood, as their language differed little, if at all, from that of the Otaheitans. The pigs on board they insisted upon having, fre quently praised the size of the Mercury, and re quested to know whose canoe she was But at length becoming impatient, a number grappled with the bowsprit rigging, and endeavoured to pull her in towards the shore, while others were endea vouring, by main strength, to pull the bole , : from the sides, for the sake of the. iron, with the value of which metal they were doubtless made acquainted by Capt.. Cook. As they had not any articles for barter, and ,the; Mercury had not expended the whole of her trade,' Mr. Reiby offered to purchase some of their spears, - as they were ingeniously carved ; but none of their- would they upon any account part with; at length. they began vehemently to threaten the people cn board, if they continued to , obje& to going on shore; many had spears in their hands; and_ one, who had taken a long spear up, with much seem ing composure, while speaking to a seaman in the main chains, of the name of David Clarke, 'in stead of offering it for barter, as was expealed to be his intention, made a sudden plunge at the belly of Clarke; who received the spear through his right hand, and in the left groin, about an inch.— The unfortunate man fell, upon receiving the wound, and was with difficulty got in. A general disposition of attack was now manifest ed, and self-defence became a duty : two mus ketoons were immediately discharged among. the foremost ; and we were not sorry to observe, that the whole contents of one were lodged in the body of Cla ke's unprovoked assailant. Their consternation at the noise they heard may ea•ily be conjectured : they staid not to examine the cause of the explosion ; but, taking to their ped dles, in a few minutes reached the shore, where an immense number were assembled"; and the Mercury took leave of this little inhospitable island which is in about 21. 38. S. and 158. 20. E. long. It is much to be laMented, that even the Friendly Islanders should still retain their cruel custom of sacrificing human beinSs to their supersititions. On this subject we copy the folio ing extract from a journal on board the Mercury :-- 7 " toll of March, at two P. M. saw the natives at liunaine murder a man, as a sacrifice, and hang hie; up in a basket, in a range with four others, .who_ had suffered the same fate.—reth of March, saw a canoe take in abe murdered bodies at Hubaine to be couveyedeto .—• Pt: Wished by WILLIAM ARMIGLR SCRIPPS, Soutti,Molf9o.street,G ocvenc square. or the Paper Leitcrs for t h e escc. (post-pain), moist b... add. c:ss.Ni. di,tance of eight or ten leagues, there to be )uried in their grand morai, or place of worship." L On the 14th of March, 40 or 50 canoes, with .`2O to 30 men in each, arrived from other parts of Hub,?ine, to . .11.1.ray, at which the Chief Oinal commands, t,) lmlti a.consultation on the subject of the Bolobolams -refusing to pay their yearly tribute, which was uspallw paid in swine ; and which refusal, it was supposed,would be productive of an immediate war. disinasted brig mentioned last Sunday to be in sight off the Heais, proved to be the Bon Cida detlo, from Polo Penang, the 3d of March, in ballast t o r the Fej.-es, to procure a cargo of sandal wood.-- She was dismasted six weeks ago, on her passage thither ; since which, the C , p;ain, Mr. Dernaria, tOr i tncrly master of the &ado, -ied of an old corn plaint ; and the chief mate, the only remaining Eu ropean on board, died after she was boarded on Sun day list by the Endeavour. The above vessel was it. wed in by his Majesty's colonial schooner.Estramin the su , plies taken by. which were truly acceptable, as the brig had been . beating about this coast for upwards of a month, in a dismasted and a distressed state. THE TAILOR AAD LAWYER. An honest industrious .tailor in London had the ~ misfortune to have in his books a number of ~Inall. debts which had been of long standing, and winds he could very ill afford to lose. He made an aplili-, cation to an attorney on the subject, who undenunk. the recovery of the money, Alter a considerable time, Snip applied to the lawyer, to know What measure of success he had had, in expedati(u of receiving some money ; instead of which, however,. he was presented with a bill as long as his arm, ,Con taining almost innumerable items, the gross amount of which exceeded the tailor's debts, and in :.iddition . to their loss, left him greatly in arrear. .After fre quent applications to the attorney, he at length ob 7 tained his consent to make him a suit of clothes, which, • when completed, be delivered to itim,, and, also presented him with the following bill. He had contrived the amount to be about the same as the professional gentleman's charge, against which he intended it as a set-off: — Z. S. D- To mounting and taking orders for a suit of clothes 0 • 6 g Warrant and instructions to my foreman for exe cuting the same - - - - o 6 g Going thr:e furies to the woollen-draper - o 10 Pecs m the woollen-draper - - 4 4 Cutting outAhe Moth - . - o 6 ' Materials tot k7orkiitg, - . 1 Ic' Try , it the suit - i. - o 13 4 Altt dons and Amendments - - 1 S ! - Entering it in :lit nay-book . - 010 6 Posting it in my ledger . - - o 6 g Engrossing tht same . - - • 13 4 Writing ti, the huttun-merchant - - •6 g Filing his declaration, r6sli ce t s - - 0 16 a Fees to utton-tnercliant - - - 2 12 a Removing the suit from my house to C; ray's Inn I Ir+ Removing it by certiorari from Gray's Inn to Sur rey (at your country house) - Writing out a receipt, With a stamp . - Filing the same . - - Strvict of the same - • 6 o 12 O 6 6 o c efr • 0 Ditto eight times more • 4', 6 41 " Every body should try," was the concluding Observation of George Alexander Steevens, in (I ,o c part of bis Lecture on Heads wherein he destrilie. the reasons why people adventure in LW , e , f‘e " Somebody, says he) must get the great Prizes:, As " Nobody knows who," and " Anybody nlaY , ': Everybody should try,"—ln the present Lottery' Everybody seems inclined to take his advice, but ag the whole is to be drawn in one day, if Anybody' delays, it is a great chance but Somebody will'` too late. SHIP NEWS. CRAVISEIVD, OCTOBER I. *Arrived—the Brothers, Phillips, Hope, Hunter, Bailers. Clapeton, Sanderson, Sanderson, and Friendship, Hun:ble, from Quebec; loltanna, Warris, front St. Üb's ; from Gibraltar; Vestal, Orton, Charming 10 1 14 Manning, Hope, Levid, and , Lively, Ilarvy, from Hondo raS ; Union, einknev, from St. loseph's island ; Pontona. Lloyd, front Sr; kitt's ; Commerce, Harper, nom NeW Brunswick ; and the Mary, Bradley, trout Seville. Good Intent, Ali.u, for jersey ; Helena, Brine, tor Cadiz.; and tire Thames, Cooper. for Halifax. BIRTHS On Tuesday la6t, the Lady of lames Roberts West, EA* of A/scot, Stratfurti-upon- von, of a Daughter. On Sunday afternoon, at his house in Fitzroy-square/ tip Lady of Charles Lainbtrt, Esq. of a Daughter. MARRIA - D. On Wednesday, at 'Weymouth, the Rev. Lewis Clutter — buck, ot Newark Park; Gloucesterslure, to Frances, second v " . daughter of Edward Elton , Esq. of Gloucester-place, Lou. don. , On Thursday last, at Bath, Mr. Thomas Hamilton, iloolc7, seller, of Paternoster-row, to Miss Ann Macplicrs9gl 9 Fleet-street. Yesterday, the Rev. George Parry Marriott, of Gre 4 Baddow, in the County of Essex, to Miss Jane Eax, daugh— ter of john flax, Esq. of the same place. D.'fr.D. - - - On Sunday last, at his house, Newick Park, Susses, Sit Elijah lmpey, Bart. On Wednesday, Mr. Beer, of Taunton. His death W occasioned by failing from the top to the bottom of the stair, of the. Swan Inn, where he had met a few tnends on the Mon day preceding. - `On Thursday last, at Reading, .fohn Pulley, sett. F.sq. On Sunday se'nnight, at the house of his uncle Major Heron, Portland-place, Bath, Joseph Furtescue, Esq. ill tlic 19th year of his age. The same day, in Pennet.street, Miss Ellis, sister of Fran cis Ellis, Esq. of Somerset-place, Bath. On Tues,iay the igth Wt. suddenly, the Rev. Edmund' Gappers, Rector of uniriton-Adam and Kennon Mande field, and one of His Majesty's fustices of the Peace for SO' mersetshire. chi ednesday the 2 , 3 th ult. at Brecon, Mary Ann, wife of Coarles Claude Clifton, Esq. fats CaPtai.n . in the Ko2o k Artillery. On Friday the 29th ult. at Brighton, in the 7th year of her 2ge, Miss Mary Anne Ogilvie, the daughter of jatnes Ogil vie, Eby. of W vibe. k • street. Lately, at Shtron, near York, aged too sears, Si.sanna , Right. She had . seven at whciii six are now at an advanced age. u.fr 3 I OC. YEITE Sank Stock, shut avy S pci (vnt. 99A Irish 5 per Cent; shut 4 per Cent. shut pe: . Cent. Red. shut • .N3iper 68 bank L. A!ai. shut DAY. India Stock, Inoia Bonds, 231. tic. pr. 12.5. 6s. 55. P i ' On - innno, I.lnperii.kl 3 pet Cent. 67 Cons. for Acc.ount, 6S 4 I